Horseshoe.



No. 804,887. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905. H. W. SEIBER.

HORSESHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 11, 1904.

W iigzsses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed January 11, 1904. Serial No. 188,619.

To on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARVEY WILLIAM SEI- BER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Horseshoe, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to horseshoes, and has for its object to produce an improved construction whereby the calks are detachably and removably connected to the shoe and efficiently supported from displacement.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood'that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its ad vantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the claims made therefor.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation on.the line 2 20f Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective View inverted of one of the heel-calks.

The shoe 10 is formed with a recess 11 transversely of each of its heel portions opening downwardly and with a vertical socket centrally of the area between the side walls of the recesses and with pin-apertures 13 transecting the sockets. The heel-calks 14 are constructed to fit closely within the recesses 11 and with studs 15 for engagement with the sockets. The studs are provided with transverse pin-apertures 16, corresponding to the pin-apertures in the shoe, but ofl'set slightly therefrom, so that when pins 17 are driven through the apertures a drawing force will be exerted on the calks to tightly clamp them into engagement with the body of the shoe forming the bottom of the recesses 11, as will be obvious. By this simple arrangement the calks are firmly supported from movement by the shoulders formed by the side walls of the recesses 11 coacting with the studs 15 and combined drawing and holding pins 17. The pins are thus relieved largely of strains, the strains, on the other hand, being largely borne by the solid portions of the body of the shoe at each side of the recesses.

The toe portion of the shoe is also pro vided with a recess 18, defined by a curved wall substantially equal in radius, but disposed I oppositely to the curvature of the shoe, and

in the shoe-body centrally of the recess are spaced sockets, in which studs 22 on the toecalk 23 fit. The toe-calk is. formed with oppositely-disposed convex sides, in turn fitting the recess 18 and supported by the wall formed thereby and with its opposite side conforming to the curvature of the shoe. Transverse pinapertures 24 25 are formed through the toe portion of the shoe and intersecting the toeportion sockets, and similar apertures 26 are formed through the studs 22, but slightly offset from the apertures in the shoe, so that when the pins 28 are driven through the apertures the toe-calks will be drawn rigidly into engagement with the body of the shoe within the recess 18 in the same manner as the heel-calks are drawn into engagement with the body of the shoe within the recesses 11, as before described; The "sides of the toe-call; being of equal and opposite convexi ties and the inner wall of the recess 18 correspondingly concaved, the toe-calk will be reversible within its recess, so that if worn irregularly for any reason the unevenness may be corrected by simply reversing the ca The pins 17 and 28 will preferably be formed with their outer ends provided with annular channels of slight depth to facilitate the removal of the pins when the calks are to be detached.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A horseshoe provided with a recess defined by a concave wall with its radius substantially equal to the radius of the adjacent portion of the shoe, a calk having convex sides so proportioned that either will fit the concave wall and the other conform to the curvature of the shoe, and means for securing the calk within the recess.

2. A horseshoe provided with a recess defined by a concave wall with its radius substantially equal to the radius of, but oppositely disposed to, the curvature of the adjacent portion of the shoe, a calk having convex sides so proportioned that either Will fit the concave Wall and the other conform to the curvature of the shoe, and means for securing the calk removably Within the recess.

3. A horseshoe provided with a recess, one side of which is defined by the curvature of the shoe and the opposite Wall curved on a similar radius, a socket formed Within the area of the recess, a calk having convex sides so proportioned as to interchangeably fit the concave Wall of the recess and having a stud proportioned to fit Within the socket, and means to secure the stud removably Within the socket.

4:. A horseshoe provided With a recess, one side of Which is defined by the curvature of the shoe and the opposite Wall curved on a similar radius, a socket formed Within the area of the recess, a calk having convex sides so proportioned that either Will fit the concave Wall and the other conform to the curvature of the shoe and having a stud proportioned to fit Within the socket, and means to secure the stud removably Within the socket.

.5. A horseshoe provided with a recess, one side of Which is defined by the curvature of the shoe and the opposite Wall curved on'a similar radius, a socket formed Within the area of the recess, an opening transecting the socket, a calk having convex sides so proportioned that either Will fit the concave Wall and the other conform to the curvature of the shoe, a stud formed rigid With the calk and proportioned to fit Within the socket and having an opening approximately registering With the opening in the shoe, and a pin proportioned to be removably driven into the opening in the shoe and through the opening in the calk.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

HARVEY WILLIAM SEIBER.

W'itnesses:

J. D. T. BOLD, H. G. SToNEBRooK. 

